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Robert Carlyle is set to bring to life the legendary literary detective Sherlock Holmes in Season 2 of the CBS series Watson. Carlyle will appear in a recurring guest role, working opposite series lead Morris Chestnut, who plays Dr. John Watson.

The investigative medical drama is a modern version of one of history’s greatest detectives as he turns his attention from solving crimes to solving medical mysteries. While Watson’s team of “doc-tectives” may have defeated Moriarty (Randall Park) last season, they remain determined in Season 2 in their mission to investigate and treat the world’s rarest diseases for their clinic’s patients.

With his eyes fixed on the future, Watson faces an unexpected twist when Sherlock Holmes, who was presumed dead, resurfaces, forcing him to confront a buried secret from his past — one that lies hidden within his own body.

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Captain Curry is here to stay. That's the news coming down from Wolf Entertainment. According to Deadline, Aimé Donna Kelly has been officially upped to a series regular role ahead of Law & Order: Special Victim Unit's historic Season 27. Kelly plays Captain Renee Curry on the long-running police procedural. The 27th Season will also feature the return of Kelli Giddish as Sgt. Amanda Rollins in a series regular role after departing in Season 24. Mariska Hargitay returns as Captain Olivia Benson and Ice-t as Sgt. Odafin "Fin" Tutuola — the two longest-serving regular cast members. Along with this shakeup ahead of the new season comes Svu's first-ever female showrunner, Michele Fazekas, who served as a writer and executive producer on the show from Seasons 3-7.

Captain Curry first appeared in Season 22, working for the Internal Affairs Bureau. She moved to Svu as a more permanent presence in Season 25. Kelly's upped stay will have...

The past 12 months brought with it a sea of change for the Dick Wolf-led FBI universe. While the flagship series, which stars Missy Peregrym and Zeeko Zaki in the lead roles, remained untouched, its offshoots were in for a proper shakeup. FBI: Internationaland FBI: Most Wantedwere both cancelled by CBS in what was an unexpected move from the network. CBS recently unveiled its fall line-up of shows and, as expected, both shows are nowhere in sight. However, the flagship series, FBI, is poised to return on Monday, October 13 at 8 Pm. Ahead of the eighth season, though, the procedural drama is set for a shakeup with a familiar feel.

According to TV Line, S.W.A.T. andMagnum P.I. alum Emily Alabi will be leaving FBI after recurring in Season 8 as Dani Rhodes. Alabi joined the show during Season 7, taking on the role of Rhodes, the new partner to John Boyd's Stuart Scola.

A Law & Order: Special Victims Unit alum is hopping over to another Dick Wolf property. Deadline announced that Juliana Aidén Martinez is joining the cast of Season 8 of FBI as a series regular. While Deadline reports no details have been released about Martinez character, the news comes just two months after it was announced that she would be departing the Wolf's longest-running police procedural, Svu, after signing on as Detective Kate Silva for a single season. Within the world of FBI, Stuart Scola (John Boyd) is on the hunt for a new partner after Tiffany Wallace (Katherine Renee Kane)'s departure, which could potentially be, Martinez's character.

The 'FBI' Universe Is Expanding, But Later Than Expected

Martinez's casting on FBI comes just days after a few disappointing updates coming out of FBI's newest upcoming spin-off, CIA. The show will be led by Tom Ellis (Lucifer), who will play Hart Hoxton.

It seems like the other networks will have to do all that they can to win over viewers because CBS's fall schedule is loaded. From new shows, returning favorites, and good ol' football, leaving your television on the channel might be the smartest thing to do. One of the new shows that viewers were excited to watch is the FBI spin-off, CIA, which was ordered straight to series in April. The one-hour crime drama, which will starTom Ellis, won't be ready for its original fall launch, but it's still happening. What will take its place instead? According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Morris Chestnut-led Watson, a medical drama with detective elements, will take the fall premiere spot.

Watson, which is heading into its second season after a successful debut, was scheduled for a mid-season start, but with CIA not being ready, it was the perfect show to fill that void.

It seems fans are going to have to wait longer than anticipated for FBI’s newest spinoff to arrive.

While the plan was originally for the new CIA spinoff to debut in the fall following new episodes of FBI, CBS will be down to just one FBI franchise show in the fall. This is because CIA is being pulled from the fall lineup and is on the move to midseason, meaning the Tom Ellis-led spinoff will not premiere until 2026.

As first reported by Deadline, part of this sudden and unexpected change comes from CIA undergoing a showrunner change with veteran Wolf Entertainment creative Warren Leight, who served as a showrunner on Law & Order: Svu for several years, taking over as the spinoff’s new showrunner. Leight will succeed David Hudgins, who was originally tapped to oversee the show following his time as showrunner of FBI: Most Wanted.

Bad news for anyone who had been eagerly anticipating the premiere of the FBI spinoff CIA this fall. Deadline reports that the Tom Ellis-led spinoff has had its premiere bumped back and will now get a midseason debut. The FBI CIA-basedspinoff got a straight-to-series order earlier this spring. Now, however, CBS is pushing it back as it is undergoing a change in showrunners.

CIA's original showrunner, David Hudgins, who had previous experience running FBI: Most Wanted, had originally been set to lead the show and co-write the pilot script with network procedural legend Dick Wolf. However, he is now exiting the troubled series and is to be replaced by Warren Leight, another Dick Wolf universe veteran whose previous experience comes from the long-running Law & Order: Svu.

What This Means For The FBI Spinoff It's Not Necessarily A Bad Thing

There had previously been signs that CIA was in some developmental trouble.

CBS has made some changes to its fall schedule as it announces its new season roll-out plans. New “FBI” spinoff “CIA,” which had been slated to premiere in the fall, will now be held back for midseason as it undergoes some tinkering.

The show, from Dick Wolf, has switched showrunners: Warren Leight (“Law & Order: Svu”) will take over from David Hudgins, and has been given additional time to adjust before going into production. Tom Ellis stars in “CIA,” and the writers room is now up on the show — with casting set to begin soon and production now expected to start in the fall.

With “CIA” pushed back, CBS will now move up Season 2 of “Watson,” originally slated for midseason, to fall instead.

Beyond that, CBS has opted to launch most of its fall sked in October, aiming to take advantage of September events. Much of its lineup is set...

CBS is making a change to its fall schedule.

Second-year drama Watson, which had been scheduled for a midseason start, will move up to the fall. It takes the place of CIA, an FBI spinoff that CBS ordered straight to series in April but now won’t be ready in time for a fall launch. CIA, from Dick Wolf’s Wolf Entertainment, Universal Television and CBS Studios, is also changing showrunners: Warren Leight (Law & Order: Svu) is taking over from FBI: Most Wanted’s David Hudgins.

A writers room for CIA is at work, but casting for other roles around lead Tom Ellis hasn’t begun yet. Filming is slated to begin in early fall.

As for CBS’ premiere schedule, the network will once again roll out most of its lineup in mid-October, using the early part of the NFL season as a promotional engine. Unscripted mainstays Survivor and The Amazing Race...

Ahead of the Fall 2025 schedule, the upcoming FBI spin-off CIA, is getting two important updates. The Tom Ellis-led spin-off has actually been pushed to mid-season for its premiere, moving off the Fall schedule. According to Deadline, this comes as the series also undergoes a change in showrunner. The Dick Wolf property sees David Hudgins exit as showrunner and is instead bringing in a longtime collaborator with Wolf, Warren Leight. Leight is known for his work in the Law & Order universe on NBC including his two runs as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit showrunner.

'FBI' Spin-Off Enlists Long-Time Dick Wolf Collaborator to Run 'CIA'

The series has already seen some recent changes, with it remaining unclear who, if anyone, would be crossing over from the FBI shows as CIA launches. Leight served as showrunner for Law & Order: Svu from 2011 to 2016 and then returned as showrunner in 2019 to 2022 before departing once again.

CBS on Friday became the first broadcast network to unveil its Fall TV premiere dates.

In doing so, CBS revealed that — as hinted this week by Matt’s Inside Line — the latest “FBI Universe Expansion,” CIA starring Tom Ellis (and thus far no one else), is being moved from fall to midseason, as it gets a bit of a reworking under new showrunner Warren Leight (of the Law & Order-verse), who has replaced FBI: Most Wanted vet David Hudgins.

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CBS has made changes to its 2025-26 television schedule.

The upcoming FBI spinoff series CIA is moving to the mid-season, likely with a 2026 release, instead of airing this fall.

The news comes amid a showrunner change for the series. FBI: Most Wanted showrunner David Hudgins was originally set to lead the show, but he has departed the series and has been replaced by Warren Leight, who previously served as showrunner on Law & Order: Svu.

The delay for CIA, which will star Tom Ellis, has caused a big change for the show Watson.

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Morris Chestnut‘s new series was originally intended to premiere as a mid-season replacement, but the second season will now air in Fall 2025, according to Deadline.

CIA was originally set to air on Mondays at 10pm and it has been confirmed that Watson will air in this time slot.

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CBS is shaking up its fall schedule as the network pushes upcoming “FBI” spinoff series “CIA” to a midseason debut.

“CIA,” which stars Tom Ellis and was slated for a fall premire, will debut midseason, with sophomore series “Watson,” which was slotted for a midseason premiere, filling the fall time slot, the network revealed Friday.

The decision to push “CIA” to midseason was made to give the new show, part of the “FBI” franchise, additional time to ensure its success, an individual with knowledge told TheWrap. As part of that process, Warren Leight (“Law & Order: Svu”) has replaced David Hudgins as its showrunner.

The writers’ room for “CIA” is currently up and running and casting for additional roles beyond Ellis will begin shortly, with production slated to begin in the fall.

“CIA” will premiere alongside new “Yellowstone” spinoff, “Y: Marshals,” “Harlan Coben’s Final Twist” and “America’s Culinary Cup,...

Exclusive: Mothership FBI will be the only representative of the crime drama franchise on CBS’ fall schedule. Offshoot CIA starring Tom Ellis, which received a straight-to-series order in April, is being delayed until midseason and is undergoing a showrunner change. Watson, which had been set to return for a second season in midseason, will now be on for fall.

FBI: Most Wanted showrunner David Hudgins, who originally was tapped to lead the series and co-write the pilot script with FBI, Law & Order & Chicago franchise boss Dick Wolf, has exited. He is being replaced by Wolf universe veteran Warren Leight, known for his two stints as showrunner of Law & Order: Svu.

There had been early signs that CIA may not be ready for fall. The original plan was for three characters, including the one played by Ellis, to be introduced in a planted spinoff episode of mothership FBI which...

Hosted by The Voice of the Mets Colin Cosell, The 24 Hour Musicals were just held yesterday, June 16, at the Lynn F. Angelson Theatre. This intensive theatrical endeavor lets artists write, rehearse and perform four new musicals in just 24 hours. Check out photos from inside the big night! Participating artists included: Osh Ashruf, Becky Ann Baker, Abigail Breslin, Lilli Cooper, Rachel Dratch, Andrew Leeds, Warren Leight, Itamar Moses, christopher oscar peña, Gabrielle Ruiz, Meredith Scardino, Carolyn Cantor, John Carrafa, Morgan Siobhan Green, Jesse Eisenberg, Alexis Floyd, Michael R. Jackson, Bebe Neuwirth, Maulik Pancholy, and Peppermint. This year's event honored the organization's long-time collaborator Anna Strout. <br...

This June, Jonathan Groff will have the rare chance to win Tony Awards in two consecutive years. If he repeats last year’s triumph for Merrily We Roll Along with one for this year’s Just In Time, he’ll join a very exclusive club of six Broadway greats: Laurie Metcalf, Judith Light, Stephen Spinella, Sandy Dennis, Gwen Verdon, and Shirley Booth.

For Groff, the two-in-a-row possibility, exciting enough, even has a hint more frisson: Just In Time, a biographical musical of Bobby Darin, marks a career first for the busy actor. “I’ve never been part of a project from its conception. Eight years ago this month, actually, Ted Chapin asked me to do a night of Bobby Darin music at the 92nd Street Y and I read this book called Dream Lovers: The Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee, written by Dodd Darin, the son of Bobby and Sandy,...

“It’s my first love,” Jonathan Groff tells The Hollywood Reporter, on why he returned to Broadway so soon after winning his first Tony Award for Merrily We Roll Along last year.

Now, Groff has received his fourth Tony nomination for playing singer-actor Bobby Darin in the jukebox musical, Just in Time. He has previously been nominated for his work in Hamilton and Spring Awakening. But this time, the experience is “unlike anything” before, as he’s been involved with the project for the last eight years and has learned how to embody the moves and persona of the legendary singer.

And the Mindhunter star is having a lot of fun doing it. At the top of the show, he introduces himself to the crowd as himself, which was Groff’s idea, and even warns the crowd that he might spit on them while singing, poking fun at his saliva-based...

Broadway’s 2024-25 season got off to a rather fine start, from the wildly popular and hysterically funny Oh, Mary! to the fabulous splash of Death Becomes Her and the wonderful left-field sleeper Maybe Happy Ending, and wrapped up with some equally excellent season closers like Just In Time and Dead Outlaw.

This compendium of Deadline’s Broadway reviews takes a look at all of them. Use it as a guide for your theater-going, or a sneak peek at what this year’s Tony Awards might have in store on Sunday, June 8.

Real Women Have Curves: The Musical

Opening Night: April 27

Venue: Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre

Direction & Choreography By: Sergio Trujillo

Book: Lisa Loomer with Nell Benjamin, based on the play by Josefina López and the HBO screenplay by Josefina López and George Lavoo

Music & Lyrics By: Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez

Cast: Tatianna Córdoba, Justina Machado,...

Just In Time, the Bobby Darin jukebox musical starring Jonathan Groff opening tonight at a wonderfully dressed Circle in the Square on Broadway, does some serious and genuine starmaking, twice over in fact. Darin, the once hugely popular but now barely remembered nightclub singer and Top 40 hitmaker is returned to a spot in our cultural memory, and Groff, the Tony-winning star of last season’s Merrily We Roll Along and for years now one of the stage’s more popular young actors, newly emerges to the top ranks of the best, most natural all-around entertainers working today.

Some performances – think Liza Minnelli in the film Cabaret, or Hugh Jackman in Broadway’s The Boy From Oz – send their stars into new stratospheres, something outside the labels “actor” and “singer” and into that exclusive circle of stars who can hold a stage both as a character and as themselves, instantly recognizable and unique.

The following contains mentions of sexual assault.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is synonymous with Mariska Hargitay. The actress has played Olivia Benson since the Law and Order spinoff premiered in 1999.

Hargitay's character became the longest-running character in American primetime drama, with 570 episodes and counting across the show's 26 seasons. In an interview with Cbr, upcoming guest star Donna Lynne Champlin revealed how involved Hargitay is in all the production. She also praised the Primetime Emmy-winning actress for "taking care" of everyone on set.

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"It was fantastic, and one of the main reasons why it's one of my favorite jobs I've ever done is because of Mariska.She is my favorite kind of leading lady,...

The following contains mentions of sexual assault.

The Law and Order franchise has had a series of famous guest stars and that is not stopping any time soon. Law & Order: Svu will welcome Donna Lynne Champlin in Season 26 as a guest star.

The actress will make her Law & Order debut in Svu's Episode 14, "The Grid Plan," where she plays Megan Wallace, a tourist sexually attacked in Times Square during a vacation in New York City. Speaking to Cbr about her experience in the role, she also highlighted that Law & Order: Svu has also tackled a very problematic TV trope, not only about women but victims as well.

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Champlin's Megan has a bigger role than other guest stars, becoming very involved in the investigation.

We’re about halfway through the 2024-25 Broadway season, and there are 12 productions of musicals set to open this spring. Could any of them contend at this year’s Tony Awards? Below, find the summaries of each plot, as well as its author, cast, composer, and director. You’ll also get the opening, and (where applicable) closing dates.

SEETony Talk: Plays ‘Oh, Mary!’ and ‘The Hills of California,’ actor Kit Connor are on track for nominations Redwood

Previews began: Jan. 24

Opens: Feb. 13

Official synopsis: Jesse seems to have it all, a successful career and devoted family, until a life-altering event drives her far from everyone and everything she knows. When she finds herself at the foot of the redwoods in Northern California, a chance encounter and a leap of faith will change her life forever.

Book by Tony nominee Tina Landau

Score by Kate Diaz and Tina Landau

Directed by...

Update: Broadway’s Mean Girls star Erika Henningsen will play singer Sandra Dee in the upcoming Just In Time musical about Bobby Darin starring Jonathan Groff.

Henningsen’s arrival rounds out the cast in the world premiere Broadway staging, which begins previews at Circle in the Square Theater on Friday, March 28, with an opening night on Wednesday, April 23.

Producers Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens and John Frost made the casting announcement today.

Previous, Jan. 14: Gracie Lawrence of The Sex Lives of College Girls and the band Lawrence will make her Broadway musical debut this spring opposite Jonathan Groff in the Bobby Darin musical Just In Time. She’ll play singer Connie Francis to Groff’s Darin.

Also joining the cast is Emily Bergl, who has appeared on Broadway in Goodnight Oscar, The Ferryman, and A Touch of the Poet and on TV in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Mindhunter. For Just In TIme,...

Erin Moriarty got her start in the industry when she was just 11 years old, and her best movies and TV shows run her entire timeline from her work as a teenager up to now. Because Moriarity was born and raised in New York, she is trained in theater as well as on-screen, but her professional work has all been for TV and film. Though one of her earliest roles was in the soap opera One Life To Live, the soap does not make it into her best work.

Soap operas, however, are notorious for being like bootcamp for actors just starting out in the industry since work on a soap is incredibly fast-paced and takes place nearly every day. Moriarty likely got a television crash course that has served her well. Most of her roles have been of a supporting nature in her career so far, but she has demonstrated...

Halo‘s Pablo Schreiber once played a villain who gave nightmares to Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson in Law & Order: Svu. Schreiber played the role of William Lewis, a serial r*pist and killer, in the series, who had an expanded arc that lasted for seven episodes. Schreiber’s character remains one of the best-remembered villains of the long-running series, especially after he traumatized Svu‘s main protagonist Benson.

Pablo Schreiber as William Lewis in Law & Order: Svu | Credits: NBC

However, not everyone was a big fan of Schreiber’s William Lewis storyline. Some felt that the storyline was stretched out and they also shared that they hated how the episodes were handled. Interestingly, Halo, in which Schreiber played the lead, was canceled after two seasons at Paramount+.

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Kathy McGee will be the recipient of the WGA East’s Richard B. Jablow Award for Devoted Service to the Guild at the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards ceremony in March.

McGee, a member of the WGA East since 1997, is an award-winning news writer and producer for Wcbs-tv. She has served as the shop leader at Wcbs-tv since 2006 and is a member of the bargaining committee for CBS contracts.

She is currently as a member of the guild’s Committee for Inclusion and Equity. Additionally, Wgae Activities Committee, the Wgae Black Writers Salon and is a longtime member of the National Association of Black Journalists.

Previously, McGee was the WGA East’s vice president from 2019 to 2021 and the vice president of the broadcast/cable/streaming news sector between 2022 and 2024. She also served as a Council member from 2014 to 2019.

“I am filled with gratitude and joy and thank the committee for this honor.

Casting was announced for Broadway’s upcoming Just in Time starring Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin, with the Merrily We Roll Along Tony winner to be joined on stage in the new musical by Joe Barbara (A Bronx Tale The Musical), Michele Pawk (Wicked), Lance Roberts (The Music Man), Caesar Samayoa (Come From Away), Christine Cornish, Julia Grondin (Funny Girl), Valeria Yamin (Moulin Rouge!), John Treacy Egan (My Fair Lady), Tari Kelly (Mr. Saturday Night), Matt Magnusson, Khori Michelle Petinaud (Lempicka), and Larkin Reilly (Bad Cinderella).

Producers Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens and John Frost announced the casting today. With a book by Warren Leight and Isaac Oliver, music supervision and arrangements by Andrew Resnick, choreography by Shannon Lewis and based on an original concept by Ted Chapin, Just In Time, developed and directed by Alex Timbers, will open Wednesday, April 23, 2025, at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre,...

When Law & Order: Svu picked its new showrunner from Season 24, at least a dozen people were allegedly unhappy. David Graziano has written for shows like Lie to Me and American Gods and served as the showrunner of the Michael Chiklis-led show Coyote. Several allegations of workplace misconduct and bullying were raised against the showrunner, particularly from the set of Coyote.

Mariska Hargitay with Ice-t in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Credits: NBC

Graziano joined Svu after longtime showrunner Warren Leight stepped down after Season 23. The accusation against Graziano gained significant attention, particularly since the show deals with issues such as abuse and exploitation. Interestingly, Graziano continues to work on the show despite the allegations that was reported in 2022.

Law & Order: Svu Showrunner Was Accused Of Unprofessional Workplace Behavior David Graziano | Credits: Dgrazianoasst, licensed under Cc By-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Issues behind the scenes continue to plague Law & Order: Organized Crime. While the series is moving on following its move to streaming from broadcast television, another creative shakeup is happening with the show.

Per Deadline, it's been revealed that series showrunner John Shiban is departing Law & Order: Organized Crime. This will mark yet another showrunner to leave the series over the past four years of the show's production. Production was reportedly paused on Season 5 when Shiban exited the production earlier this month, though the news hadn't been made public up to this point.

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Filming has now resumed with original showrunner Matt Olmstead coming back on board as an executive producer. A new showrunner...

Vincent D’Onofrio was ready to return to NBC’s Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and fans couldn’t get enough. After leaving his mark as Detective Robert Goren, the Marvel star couldn’t ignore the calls for his comeback. Teasing the inevitable, D’Onofrio admitted that everyone’s been asking him about it.

Vincent D’Onofrio as The Kingpin in a still from Echo | Credits: Marvel Studios

Who could blame them? Goren’s sharp mind and intense presence made him a fan-favorite, and the idea of him back on the case had everyone buzzing. It was just a matter of time before D’Onofrio stepped back into those well-worn shoes.

Vincent D’Onofrio Teases Possible Return as Goren in Law & Order: Criminal Intent Revival Vincent D’Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe from Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Credits: Universal Cable Productions

Vincent D’Onofrio was asked the million-dollar question at Nashville’s ICCCon: would...

Fresh off his Tony-winning turn in a revival of Stephen Sondheim’ “Merrily We Roll Along,” Jonathan Groff will return to the rialto next spring in the new Bobby Darin jukebox musical “Just in Time.” Tony-winning director Alex Timbers (“Moulin Rouge”) will oversee the production that is set to transform the Circle in the Square theater into a nightclub complete with a swing band.

Groff will lead a cast of 16 to tell the story of this singer/songwriter who was only 37 when he died of heart disease in 1973. Darin had a string of hits in the 1950s including the chart-topping “Splish Splash,” “Dream Lover,” “Mack the Knife” and “Just in Time.” He turned to acting in the 1960s, often opposite his wife Sandra Dee (they met making “Come September” in 1961). He reaped an Oscar bid in 1963 for his supporting turn as a shell-shocked soldier in “Captain Newman, M.D.” In the 1970s,...

Jonathan Groff will return to Broadway this season in the new musical Just in Time.

In the show, Groff, a Tony winner for his role in last season’s Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along, will play Bobby Darin, the singer/songwriter known for “Beyond the Sea,” “Mack the Knife,” “Splish Splash” and more. Groff is also a producer on the project, alongside Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens and John Frost.

The show, developed and directed by Alex Timbers (Beetlejuice, Here Lies Love), will begin previews at the Circle in the Square Theatre starting March 28, 2025 with an opening night April 3. The theater is currently home to Romeo + Juliet, which is a limited run, set to close Feb. 16.

The run marks the world premiere of Just in Time, which features a book by Warren Leight (Side Man) and Isaac Oliver (Intimacy Idiot) and choreography by Shannon Lewis. The play, which features a live,...

Season 5 of Law & Order: Organized Crime is on the way, and Dean Norris, known for his role as Randall Stabler, is about to get a big promotion.

The seventh series in the Law & Order franchise is about to bring Norris character to the forefront with its fifth season. According to the deadline, Norris will be a series regular starting season 5. Previously, Randall Stabler was just a recurring one, appearing in just nine of the previous 13-episode season. Now that Randall has patched things up with his brother and series protagonist Elliot (Chis Meloni), he should make several more appearances. Norris is arguably best known for his role as Hank Sharader on Breaking Bad. Some of his other acting credits include United States of Al, Claws, Better Call Saul, and even The Big Bang Theory.

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The latest on Law & Order: Svu season 26 offers an update on Rollins' status after she left the team, confirming that Kelli Giddish is set to appear in several upcoming episodes. Having portrayed NYPD Detective Amanda Rollins since 2011, Giddish left Svu during season 24 in what was considered an unpopular decision. But since her departure, the actor has reprised her role as a guest star. She'll continue to do for Law & Order: Svu season 26, which premieres on NBC on Thursday, October 3 at 9 Pm Est.

TVLine confirms that Giddish will be a part of Svu season 26, with executive producer Julie Martin saying: Rollins is definitely coming back to the show. Shes coming as a guest star, and shes going to make a bunch of appearances throughout the season. Speaking alongside showrunner and executive producer David Graziano, the EPs say that Rollins will work with the NYPD's Intelligence Unit and add that Rollins'...

In fitting Bob Newhart fashion, the legendary comic, who died this week at 94, liked to sell himself short.

In a 1986 Rolling Stone interview (conducted by future Law & Order boss Warren Leight!), Newhart referred to the secret sauce of his self-titled CBS sitcom as “Brevity. It’s saying it in the fewest number of words, and giving the audience some credit for being intelligent and being able to figure it out.”

Referring, later in the conversation, to his seminal early routine featuring a P.R. guy chatting with an unheard Abraham Lincoln on the phone and offering unsolicited notes on the Gettysburg Address, Newhart noted: “That Abe Lincoln routine is not funny on a piece of paper. It’s what isn’t said that’s funny.”

The Internet — source pending — also quotes Newhart summing up his overall persona with the observation, “I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

NBC has revealed the future of the spinoff series Law & Order: Organized Crime. Following rumors that the show might move to Peacock to continue, it's now been confirmed that this is the plan for the Dick Wolf drama series.

Per Deadline, Law & Order: Organized Crime has been renewed for a fifth season consisting of 10 episodes. However, the renewal comes with a big change, as the show is moving off of broadcast television. As prior reports suggested, Organized Crime will become a streaming show by moving to Peacock for Season 5. Meanwhile, Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will remain on NBC, though new episodes will be made available for streaming the next day on Peacock, joining Organized Crime.

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One of the three Law & Order shows currently on the air is in danger of getting canceled, but it may not be the end of the line if that happens. As it stands, the series is likely to move over to Peacock to continue on if its run at NBC is over.

Per Deadline, the spinoff series Law & Order: Organized Crime is still on the bubble at NBC. This may have fans of the series concerned, given how the network has already renewed both Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for additional seasons. NBC has also been doling out cancelations lately, giving the boot to shows like Quantum Leap and Magnum P.I., leaving it hard to know what might happen with Organized Crime.

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Kelli Giddish is coming back to Law & Order: Svu for the third time since leaving the show. She will reprise her role as Amanda Rollins in season 25, episode 11. The details of her return are still uncertain, but it will surely be a compelling storyline for her character.

Kelli Giddish will be reprising her role as Amanda Rollins in an upcoming episode of Law & Order: Svu, marking the third time she's guest starred since leaving the show. Giddish portrayed the detective starting in season 13, becoming a core character and regular member of the cast. She departed the series as a regular in season 24, but since then has returned twice.

Now, Deadline reports Giddish will be coming back as Rollins in Law & Order: Svu season 25. She will be returning to the role during episode 11, her third guest appearance since leaving the show last season. The details of her return remain unclear,...

Svu season 21 introduces a character, Sir Toby, loosely based on Harvey Weinstein, exploring the complexities of bringing powerful figures to justice in the context of the #MeToo movement. The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted Svu's production and storytelling plans, delaying the resolution of Sir Toby's trial and shifting the focus of season 22 to address the real-world challenges faced by the characters. Svu's success is attributed to its ability to evolve with the times, reflecting societal changes and addressing moral ambiguities and harsh realities of the legal system through complex and nuanced characters.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Svu) has been a cornerstone of television, particularly in the realm of crime and legal drama, thanks to its relevant story arcs, and that's no more true than with Sir Toby in Svu season 21. Since its inception in the Dick Wolf universe in 1999, Svu has dealt with numerous challenging and sensitive topics, drawing inspiration from real-life events and figures.

Thanksgiving came early this year for Eli Roth after his new holiday slasher film, Thanksgiving, arrived in cinemas to some of the best reviews of the filmmaker’s career. Well-regarded for groundbreaking 2000s horror films like Cabin Fever (2002) and Hostel (2005), Roth has been trying to make Thanksgiving for nearly as long. Originally conceived as a “joke” trailer to be inserted between Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse double feature in 2007, Thanksgiving has been an idea that never left Roth or his childhood friend Jeff Rendell, the latter of whom co-wrote both the Grindhouse trailer and the actual 2023 slasher that is making a bloody splash today.

When we spoke to Roth about Thanksgiving, we chatted about his and Rendell’s affection for the curious subgenre of holiday-themed slasher movies released in the 1970s and ‘80s, as well as how the director finally figured out the best way to spread the...

The longest actors strike in Hollywood history is nearing its end. SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP reached a tentative agreement on a new contract on Wednesday, November 8, and the guild announced shortly after that the 118-day work stoppage would end at 12:01 a.m. Pt on November 9. With picketing locations closed, the proposed contract will now be sent to the union’s national board for an approval vote on November 10, and the 160,000+ eligible members will then vote to ratify the agreement. Assuming the majority approves the contract, actors will soon be back to work. TV creators are already sharing filming updates in the excitement of the strike’s apparent end. Quinta Brunson tweeted on November 8 that Abbott Elementary will start filming Season 3. Law & Order: Svu‘s former showrunner Warren Leight shared his best guess on how long fans can expect the next season to be (it will be considerably fewer episodes...

This is Day 116 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

SAG-AFTRA picket lines in New York City on Monday doubled as vigils, with striking actors waiting for their union’s leaders to weigh in on the “last, best, and final offer” package that the studios and streamers delivered Saturday.

“We were handed 500 pages,” SAG-AFTRA strike captain Sue Berch said Monday in her traditional stemwinder of a closing speech for morning pickets outside Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery offices in Manhattan. “So [negotiators] are going through it to make sure they keep track of everything that’s in there. Trust them.”

“‘Last, best, and final,’ my ass!” one picketer shouted, prompting whoops and cheers. Berch agreed, saying, “It isn’t final ’til we say it’s final.”

Zachary Quinto, F. Murray Abraham, Jill Hennessy, Erika Longo, Lori Hammel, Mike Doyle, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Nick Sakai and Michael Cyril Creighton were among the actors...

Christian Slater, Christopher Briney, Josh Radnor, Dagmara Dominczyk and more have joined the lineup of actors participating in The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway.

The annual event sees actors, writers, directors and production staff coming together on the night of Oct. 22 for a brainstorming session. The writers create the plays overnight and then the cast comes back together on Oct. 23 to rehearse ahead of the performance that evening. This year’s event will take place at The Town Hall and will honor playwright and former Law & Order: Svu showrunner Warren Leight, who has been a longtime supporter of the organization.

“Simply put, this promises to be an unforgettable evening,” said Artistic Director Mark Armstrong. “Warren is an extraordinary artist who’s spent his career lifting up others, so it’s no surprise that a long list of great artists have stepped up to celebrate him, on and offstage. He’s been...

After 148 days, the WGA strike has come to an end with the AMPTP finally agreeing to meet the Guild’s reasonable terms. While the Guild members still have to officially vote on and ratify the tentative agreement, WGA picketing has officially ended as of 12:01 am Sept. 27 and members are allowed to return to work during the ratification process set to take place Oct. 2 through Oct. 9.

However, just because the WGA strike is over, doesn’t mean that things are business as usual just yet. SAG-AFTRA is still on strike, and WGA members have been encouraged to picket in solidarity when they can and not cross picket lines by performing work on studio property. The SAG-AFTRA strike also means that filming can’t resume on any finished scripts until their terms are met as well. Negotiations are set to resume between the AMPTP and SAG-AFTRA on Oct. 2, so hopefully...

Law & Order, FBI, Grey’s Anatomy and 9-1-1: Lone Star fans are set to be able to enjoy some new episodes of their favorite shows in the 2023/24 broadcast season after the WGA and the AMPTP struck a deal that would end the writers strike.

The beginning of October was widely seen as the marker for when the writers strike would need to be over to give ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC a fighting chance to get any of their scripted shows on the air for a midseason premiere.

While the actors strike still needs to be resolved and the writers deal still needs to be voted on and ratified, there is optimism that the majority of network dramas and comedies will be able to launch in the new year.

Deadline spoke to a group of network execs, who said that by and large it will take drama series between...

Larry Wilmore says “finally.” Greg Grunberg says “Mazel tov! Writers Strike Deal!!!”

Bill Wolkoff promises not to picket Dancing with the Stars.

The Writers Guild has reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end its strike after nearly five months, and needless to say — the members have thoughts, lots of happy thoughts. And it’s all spilling out on social media.

Here’s a roundup of their reactions so far:

Billy Ray: “To all my fellow writers— You earned this. You saved our profession. Now let’s continue to stand w the actors. And IATSE. And the Teamsters. And labor everywhere. That’s how we’ll save America.”

Wolkoff: “Day 146. It gives me great pleasure to say we will Not be picketing Dancing With The Stars tomorrow! I really can’t wait to watch the premiere on Tuesday, because we did it!

The ongoing talks between the WGA and the AMPTP continued to look promising through the weekend, but the writers couldn’t help but have fun with the studios’ claim that they made their “best and final offer.”

After the statement was made late Saturday before talks continued today, union members took to X to have a little fun with the AMPTP’s choice of words.

It inspired Mike Flanagan and a few others to come up with possible movie titles, should Hollywood ever decide to chronicle this hot mess of a negotiation. “Best Final Offer. 2 Best Final. Best Final Offer: 3D. Off4: The Best & The Final. Bfo 5: The Finalest Offer,” he wrote.

Eden Danger followed with a few of her own: “Offer Final Offer Best & Final Offer Last & Final Offer Smart & Final Offer Final Offer Tokyo Drift.” And so did George Samir Nader: “B&f: The Motion...

A former Law & Order: Svu showrunner suggests a 13-episode fall season is still possible if the WGA and SAG-AFTRA's negotiations with the AMPTP go well. If a deal is reached by the end of the month for the Writers Guild of America and by the end of October for the Screen Actors Guild, a shortened network season could be saved. The proposed timeline would involve shooting 5 episodes before the new year and 8 more before late April, making it feasible to continue the show.

A former Law & Order: Special Victims Unit showrunner has offered a timeline where a 13-episode fall season could be a possibility. At the time of writing, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has been on strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) since May, and they were joined by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) in July. Issues at the center of the...

The dream of new episodes of network television in 2023 is not entirely dead, at least not according to former “Law and Order: Svu” showrunner Warren Leight. As negotiations between the striking WGA and the AMPTP continue, Leight outlined a way 13-episode seasons of network television “could still be saved.”

It’s too late for new episodes of most scripted series to debut on network television by the end of the year. But it may be possible for new episodes to debut in early 2024. According to Leight, the hope of a 13-episode season comes down to the WGA and the AMPTP reaching an agreement by the end of September, as well as the AMPTP and SAG-AFTRA reaching an agreement by the end of October.

1/3 Rumors are flying that a deal is imminent. Who knows… but If, somehow, the WGA and the AMPTP could come to an agreement by month's end, and...

Exclusive: The Writers Guild of America has opened investigations on both coasts into complaints by members of delayed and smaller than usual residual checks.

Instigated over the past few days as the WGA strike moves deeper into its fourth month, the probe specifically is looking at issues with third-quarter payments that scribes on a number of network and premium cable shows have reported apparently late or lower than usual payments, I hear.

“What’s been showing up in my mailbox is definitely smaller than previous quarters and last year,” one showrunner said of his recent residuals checks.

“The quarter isn’t over yet, but my checks so far seem delayed,” one veteran writer said, noting how the lack of incoming funds is hurting his ability to meet core financial obligations.

Former Law & Order: Svu showrunner Warren Leight took to social media over the weekend about the issue, generating a number...